Probing of naso-lacrimal duct waiting time at Perth Children's Hospital
The median wait for probing of naso-lacrimal duct at this public hospital in the Crawley area of Western Australia was 52 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 52 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 13 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 5 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 134 days in 2018–19 to 52 days in 2024–25 — down 61% — while the national median rose from 71 days to 83 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perth Children's Hospital | 52 days | not published | 13 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 19 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 83 days | 11.2% | 233 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.
How the wait has changed
- Perth Children's Hospital
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Perth Children's Hospital (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not published | 76 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not published | 86 |
| 2018–19 | 134 | not published | 71 |
| 2019–20 | not published | not published | 80 |
| 2020–21 | 118 | not published | 94 |
| 2021–22 | not published | not published | 121 |
| 2022–23 | 171 | not published | 131 |
| 2023–24 | not published | not published | 146 |
| 2024–25 | 52 | not published | 83 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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